Editing Nouakchott (section)

==Demographics==
{{Historical populations|1961|5,807|1965|15,000|1970|25,000|1977|134,704|1981|232,000|1988|393,325|2000|558,195|2013|958,399|2023|1,446,761}}
For comparison, its population was only 20,000 in 1969. Part of the difficulty in estimating the city's population is that part of it is [[nomad]]ic, setting up tents in suitable locations, then packing up when the need strikes. Some estimates put the 2008 population at over 2 million.<ref name="world66" /> The 2013 census gave the city's population as 958,399.<ref name="census" />

===Slum resettlement===
In 2009, the government of Mauritania announced that it would begin a process of clearing the slum on the outskirts of Nouakchott, as 24,000 families would eventually be relocated to planned housing in the city. The process was scheduled to begin with the relocation of 9,000 families from the outskirts into the poor [[Arafat, Mauritania|Arafat department]] neighborhood of "Kosovo", popularly named for its high crime rate and poor services.{{citation needed|date=April 2024}} The government planned to begin moving families in June 2009, despite concerns from aid agencies that needed infrastructure could not be put in place in the receiving neighborhood.<ref>{{cite web|title=City versus slum|url=http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=83724|website=IRIN|access-date=19 November 2016|date=31 March 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110613015533/http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=83724|archive-date=13 June 2011|url-status=live}}</ref>

In 2013, it was reported that "slums have been replaced by social dwellings for the poorest",<ref name="ecomena">{{cite web|title=The City of Nouakchott – Perspectives and Challenges|url=http://www.ecomena.org/tag/slums/|publisher=EcoMENA|access-date=3 February 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150203230640/http://www.ecomena.org/tag/slums/|archive-date=3 February 2015|url-status=live}}</ref> with the [[World Bank]] reporting that the plan met with substantial success, resulting in access to improved services for 181,035 people in the slum areas.<ref name="wb">{{cite web|title=Implementation Completion Report (ICR) Review - Urban Development Program|url=http://lnweb90.worldbank.org/oed/oeddoclib.nsf/DocUNIDViewForJavaSearch/8525682E0068603785257B3D00720810?opendocument|publisher=World Bank|access-date=3 February 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150203225806/http://lnweb90.worldbank.org/oed/oeddoclib.nsf/DocUNIDViewForJavaSearch/8525682E0068603785257B3D00720810?opendocument|archive-date=3 February 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref> Now in 2023 the population is approximately 1.5M people.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Mauritania: Regions, Cities & Urban Localites - Population Statistics, Maps, Charts, Weather and Web Information |url=https://www.citypopulation.de/en/mauritania/cities/ |access-date=2024-10-23 |website=www.citypopulation.de}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://worldpopulationreview.com/cities/mauritania/nouakchott|title=Nouakchott, Mauritania Population 2024|website=worldpopulationreview.com}}</ref>